House Band Director

Summary of the Role

The House Band Director plays a vital role in supporting the Ministry Department. This role works under the direction of the Director of Church Engagement and Ministry. The House Band initiative seeks to include children as full participants in intergenerational worship so that worship becomes a richer and more meaningful experience for everyone. The initiative seeks to form key people in the ecosystem of church worship culture: church children, children living in the emergency shelter, local churches, and children's ministry directors. This will be done through three major arenas of activity: creating content for kid-friendly worship, program implementation and structure, and convening children's ministry workers (and child representatives) for an advisory council for encouragement, resourcing, and shared learning.

Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties, or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

Mel Trotter Ministries Staff Attributes

We expect all staff to project and exemplify a passion for a faith-based approach, to advocate for the guests, to be humble, supportive team players, who acknowledge their gifts and those of others, are truthfully transparent, seek input from others, admit and learn from mistakes, are highly coachable and approachable. We expect a hungry, innovative, goal-oriented, eager contributor, who shows a dedicated work ethic. We expect our staff to exhibit empathy, compassion, active listening, self-awareness, and practice sensitivity across racial, class, and cultural lines. We look for work habits of punctuality, dependability, accountability, responsibility, cooperation, integrity, problem-solving, and overall positivity.

These attributes, combined with the performance of one's duties and achievement of goals will be equated with the quality of one's overall job performance. Please refer to them often and feel free to ask for feedback on these areas regularly.

Job Plan

• Content Creation
  • Work with outside consultants to develop 12 weeks of child-focused worship orders with fully developed worship elements.
  • Mirroring common Sunday-morning worship services, these worship orders will include worship in song and rhythm (dance), scripture and story, prayer, playfulness, snacks, and blessing.
• Program Implementation and Structure
  • Equip participant churches to practice leading the services in their own children's ministries.
  • Hold a weekly kid-focused worship service at Mel Trotter led by the children's ministry of participant churches.
  • Facilitate a weekly third phase of the program in which children lead adults on Sunday morning in one worship element that they have already led at Mel Trotter.
• Children's Regional Advisory Council
  • Facilitate a quarterly gathering of participant children's ministry directors and two children from each church at the Grand Rapids Children's Museum.
  • Curate, purchase and distribute resources to equip local churches as they develop worship services that include children as full participants.
• Funder Relations and Reporting
  • Attend monthly group calls with the Strengthening Ministry with Children coordination program.
  • Oversee program budget and prepare annual reports to our funder
  • Attend an annual out-of-state conference led by our funder

Supervisory and Leadership Responsibilities

• As a leader within the organization, this role is responsible for encouraging and exemplifying MTM organizational values and culture to not only departmental staff but across the organization.
• Provide leadership to direct reports through positive feedback, coaching, and corrective guidance, as well as the equitable application of our progressive discipline program.
• Develop and oversee outcomes of department specific goals and organizational strategic plan.
• Provide direct reports with relevant and appropriate information from pertinent meetings, in a timely manner and with guidance as to the permission levels of sharing the information with others.
• Network with People Operations department to maintain appropriate staffing levels of highly qualified staff.
• Actively participate and ensure compliance of staff training and development, including the provision of goals, post-training evaluations, and annual evaluations.
• Provide direct reports with regular one-on-one supervision as well as regularly scheduled department meetings.
• In collaboration with finance, develop and monitor overall department budget.
• Provide operational oversight and ensure staff have necessary tools and resources to perform their duties to a level of excellence.

Qualifications

• Bachelor in Ministry or Early Childhood education
• Minimum 5 years of experience in teaching or children's ministry leadership
• Proficient in Microsoft Office applications
• Excellent written and verbal communication
• Ability to present in front of a group
• Understanding of basic Christian doctrine
• Professionalism, ability to work cross-denominationally

Working Conditions

• Regular standing, walking, climbing, crouching, bending, pushing, or pulling
• Understand, speak, read, and write fluent English
• Ability to communicate verbally and to accurately hear, with hearing correction
• Ability to see 20/20, with vision correction
• Able to lift up to 20 pounds regularly
• Able to use fine motor hand functions

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https://meltrotter.isolvedhire.com/jobs/1492757-263886.html